The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-15
Local and State Notes.

E. r. Newman has been appointed commercial
agent Of the Wabash, with headquarters at Chi
cago.
Last week Belt road engines handled $50 car
loads Of live stock. against 729 the corresponding
week. 1885,
Henry Fraser. general agent of the b. &c 0
KaDkakee Dispatch, has gone East on ten
lays pleasure trip.
The c.. Fl. g. I. bridge burned on Wednesday,
near Liberty, Ind, cost, 800, 600; and this is
the second time that it has been burned.
There la a little stir among the general freight
agents OF the Indianapolis and Chicago roads
over q rumor that the Chicago roads have the
last week been cutting on export rates.
The first six months of this year the Grand
Rapids g. Indiana road increased it's gross earn
ings over those OF the corresponding period,
1886, $246. 564. and its net earnings $106, 602.
The New Albany 81 Eastern road on Saturday
made it's connection at New Albany with the L..
N. A. & q. road. and through it with the Ken
lucky & Indiana bridge over the Ohio river.
The c., a. & people announce that they
in the field for through business again. hav-
ing made arrangements with the c., St. l.. & p.
to haul their through freights until their bridges
rebuilt.
There were transferred over the Belt road last
week IL, 028 against g. III the correspo nding
week of 1886. The movement over the Belt last
week the largest of any week since the road
opened for business.
The legal steps necessary to a reorganization
of the Indianapolis. Decatur 81 Spring field Rail-
road Company have been taken, and sixty DAYS
from now the courts will be asked to turn the
road over to the new company.
The L.. N. A. & G. road are enlarging their
shops at Monon and putting in a number of new
machines and increasing the force Hereafter
all the repairs of the Indianapolis division
to be made at the Monon shopi
Holders of Niagara Falls excursion tickets at
points east of where the t.. P. g. w. Inflated
train went down. have been notified that the ex-
cursion has been indefinitely postponed, and
their money will be retu rned to them.
ha 1svte; -
Pennsylvania lines last Friday held meeting in
Pittsbrrg to devise means to increase their sup
ply o. freight cars Too much time ia occupied
IN unloading and loading to suit them.
The Chicago Eastern Illinois road comes to
the front with an increase in earnings the first
week Of July of $40, 997; the OHIO & Missis-
vpp with an increase of Sc. 900, and the Indian
$1,000. '7' = ne"t'S
III: B; Hammond, president and receiver of
the L. d. d 3 road, will be IN arrie d TO a New
been fully restored, and he is now working
on the problem of extending the l., d. q s.
westward
Pennsylvania officials quoted by the Phil
Adelphia Inquirer saying that the comnanv
will push the litigation now pending against the
St. Louis, Vsndalia & Terre Haute road, the
resignation of Mr.. Ives from the presidency not
affecting the case.
cate which sold the Cincinnati, Wabash s. Mich
sgan to the es-Staynor party, ia in New York
endeavoring to get the road out Of the mre
into which Ives has plunged il. But little of
the purchase money had been paid.
The Terre Haute car-works are advertising
for men. Their works far rebuilt
that the company has resumed work The
promptness with which they have rebuilt the
buildings, burned three weeks ago, is a matter
over which there is much favorable comment.
General Passenger Agent Shattuc, of the
Dhio d. Mississippi road. IL is stated. is seeking
70 gain favor with the Grand Army of the Re-
public by claiming that he was the originator OF
he one cent per mile rate to the Grand Army
sncampment to be held iE St Louis The facts
are that f. A. Ford introduced the resolution TO
make such a rate and pushed IL to a successful
Issue. Mr.. Shattuc, however, had addressed